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On February 28th, 2018, I delivered a speech at the United Nations International School's UNIS-UN Conference, held in the United Nations General Assembly hall in New York. This year's conference was titled "Under CTRL: Technology, Innovation and the Future of Work."
Though produced by students at UNIS in New York City, the conference was attended by approximately 750 students from international schools around the world. I myself graduated from UNIS in 1984; it's where I first learned to program computers in BASIC, including a DEC PDP 8 and a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1, dating back to 1978.
What follows is an adaptation of the speech, presented in a format more suitable to publication as a post here on ZDNet. If you wish to view the speech in its entirety, you can do so here.

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